This is dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator. I wrote this mainly as exercise to get at the features of PDF I wanted to experiment with. You're probably wondering why I don't use PDFTeX. I am a bit of a purist and I would rather use TeX unmodified as Donald Knuth left it. You can get it or the manual from http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm or if you prefer FTP: ftp://ftp.kettering.edu/pub/outgoing/mwicks/dvipdfm Features: - TeX \special's that approximate the functionality of the PostScript pdfmarks used by Adobe's Acrobat Distiller. Links, outlines, articles, and named destinations are supported, for example. - Ability to include PDF, JPEG, and PNG files as embedded images. For PDF files, only the first page is included. Resources will be embedded from the original file as necessary. File inclusion does not work for PDF files that store the page contents in several segments in an array. - Support for thumbnails (with a little help from GhostScript). - Re-encoding support for PostScript fonts. dvipdfm uses the same .enc files as dvips. The mapfile is different. - Virtual font support. - Support for arbitrary linear graphics transformations. Any material on the page can be scaled and rotated. - An internal color stack accessible via \special's. - Beginning of page (BOP) and end of page (EOP) \special's for placing arbitrary PDF stream graphics on every page. - Partial font embedding and Flate compression for reduced file size. - Balanced page tree and dest tree to improve reader speed on very large documents. Limitations (at present): - Contents streams consisting of multiple parts cannot be embedded. Mark A. Wicks Kettering University mwicks@kettering.edu